As a professional soldier with a privileged background, Kerim Derevyanko’s past understanding of gangsters was that of street gangsters, so he had always been very disdainful.
However, in recent days, with Simon's indoctrination, Derevyanko only felt that the door to a new world was slowly opening to him.
It turns out that the total annual drug trade around the world can reach hundreds of billions of dollars.
It turns out that the sports industry controlled by gangs can be so profitable.
It turns out that the relationship between Western governments and underground forces can be so close.
It turns out that the huge financial and tax revenue contributed by gangs in the process of laundering money can actually affect the economic trend of a country.
Therefore, when Simon revealed some of his plans, Derevyanko, who was full of adventurous spirit in his bones, immediately showed strong enthusiasm and immediately began to use the power of the Derevyanko family in the Rivne Oblast police system to The gangs in Rivni City, which are still in their infancy, are being investigated and documented, and it is recommended to select some suitable candidates from among the soldiers under the UFMS to cooperate with the soon-to-be-recruited former KGB agents and send them to various parts of Europe as leaders.
Simon thought about it for a while and agreed.
After professional agents join a gang, they are often more suitable for roles such as military advisors. At least in the early stages of gang development, there is still a greater need for leaders who dare to fight and fight.
In the preliminary plan, Derevyanko will be mainly responsible for recruiting and training candidates in the next few months, and Simon will use the Westeros family's intelligence team to arrange suitable smuggling routes and landing areas. As for the follow-up, although the Westeros system will not completely give up, it will mainly rely on the parties involved to conquer the world on their own.
World-class gangs basically have decades of history. Simon is not in a hurry. This plan will achieve its goal if it can see results in five to ten years.
Rivni City, in Simon's estate.
I arrived in Ukraine on August 16th, and today is Sunday, August 21st.
Starting in the morning, he and Klim Derevyanko discussed the layout of the whole thing in the manor, and it was not until about four o'clock in the afternoon that Derevyanko said goodbye and left.
After seeing off Derevyanko, this trip to Ukraine is basically over.
I am leaving tomorrow, but there are still some small personal matters that need to be dealt with.
About the six small vases that were unexpectedly obtained during this trip.
Ekaterina Noskova;
Yulia Antonenko;
Natalia Lyudaeva;
Evgenia Korkoszko;
Annika Pavlenko;
Marta Boyarskaya.
Six small vases, behind the scenes are actually six families.
No one is willing to be controlled by others, and the more capable people are, the more so. Once they are strong enough, they will naturally develop a desire to be independent.
Therefore, Simon does not have absolute trust in the representatives of the Westerosi system in Ukraine.
This requires constraints.
Simon's strategy is to put his eggs in as many baskets as possible.
No one is the only one, and it will be easier to control. Even if one or two spokespersons betray, the losses will be within the tolerable range.
The Ukrainian Front Military Service (UFMS), which is related to the military power of the Westeros system, although Simon relies more on the Derevyanko family, which has deep roots in Ukraine, he still cultivated UFMS Vice President Victor Kos without leaving any trace. Terev and several other key figures contained Derevyanko's influence.
If the Derevyanko family becomes disloyal, Simon can immediately ask Victor and others to replace Kerim Derevyanko.
In terms of business layout, Oldek Company, run by Sergei Komorov, is temporarily in charge of most of the Westeros system’s investments in Ukraine, but it cannot get involved in the Westeros system that connects the Kiev government in Ukraine and African countries. Arms Trading Company.
After arriving in Rivni on the first night, Simon asked Celia to collect the family background information of the six small vases. He planned to cultivate a spokesperson force similar to 'foreign relatives' in Ukraine.
The six small vases are all very beautiful.
Moreover, two are 14 years old, three are 15 years old, and one is 16 years old, but they have all grown to a tall height of over 1.7 meters, which proves that the girls did not suffer from malnutrition during their growth. This kind of thing was in the 1980s when the economy was declining. Very common in the former Soviet Union.
These actually mean a fact with a high probability: the girls’ family background will not be too bad, at least not before the turmoil in Ukraine in recent years.
A phoenix emerges from a henhouse, which is why it is a common saying because it is so rare.
The girls' backgrounds were checked during the selection process and entered into the archives of the Cape Dume estate.
The information that Celia quickly reorganized also proved Simon's guess.
This forms the basis for support.
After Krim Derevyanko left, Simon spent the rest of the afternoon and evening mainly meeting the girls' families.
Ekaterina Noskova's father, Maxim Noskov, is 43 years old. He once served in the Soviet Navy. After retiring with the rank of captain, he was assigned to work at a state-owned fertilizer plant in Rivni. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Maxim was already serving as the deputy director of the fertilizer plant. Because of his outstanding work ability, he was almost certain to be the next director.
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the new government took a completely negative attitude towards the former Soviet Union. The management team of the fertilizer plant was all ousted because they were basically members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
With the collapse of Ukraine's economy and the new management's unfamiliarity with the business, the Rivni state-owned fertilizer plant, which once produced 300,000 tons per year, is now producing less than 20% of its peak, and is basically on the verge of bankruptcy.
As a major agricultural country, Ukraine needs chemical fertilizers.
Compared with the energy, power and other industries that are closely watched by a group of oligarchs, the fertilizer field, which requires continuous investment but cannot see profits for a long time in the future due to the market downturn, is not taken seriously.
This is the opportunity for the Westeros system.
Simon plans to buy the fertilizer factory in Rivni and let Maxim Noskov take care of it. When Ukraine stabilizes after the turmoil in recent years and agricultural production recovers, the demand for fertilizers will inevitably increase sharply. Increase. As long as Maxim's capabilities are as outstanding as the data, with the support of sufficient funds from the Westeros system, and through continuous mergers and expansion during the industry's trough period in recent years, it is not impossible to completely monopolize the entire supply of fertilizers in Ukraine in the future.
Natalia Lyudaeva's parents both work at the State Broadcasting Company in Rovne Oblast. The couple are ordinary employees. However, Natalia's uncle Alexander Lyudaev is a manager of the broadcasting company. layer.
If you want to control a country, the importance of the media cannot be overemphasized.
In the 2019 Ukrainian election, the presidential throne was won by Vladimir Zelensky, a comedian-turned-political amateur. The Ukrainian people who did not know the truth thought that they had finally ousted the oligarch-turned-Poroshenko and ushered in a new era. The fact is that Zelensky is just the spokesperson of another Ukrainian oligarch, Igor Kolomoisky.
Igor Kolomoisky is a media tycoon who controls a large amount of radio and television resources in Ukraine.
Compared with Tymoshenko, Poroshenko and others who have sadly left the political stage one after another, Kolomoisky's experience can be called a "legend". This media tycoon also rose to prominence during the Kuchma era. A member of the Petrovsk Gang and for a time the governor of Petrovsk Oblast in the post-Kuchma era.
When then-President Petro Poroshenko announced the dismissal of Kolomoisky as governor in 2015, Kolomoisky, who had his own private armed forces, not only ignored the president's order, but also used it to protect private property. They directly sent troops to Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, as if launching an armed coup, forcing Poroshenko to withdraw his order.
Then, Zelensky came to power.
With Leon Kuchma taking office as president, Ukraine is about to undergo another wave of privatizations, this time including state-owned broadcasters across Ukraine.
Simon plans to support the Lyudaev family to acquire a number of newspaper, radio and television assets in several western Ukrainian states to form a Ukrainian local media group controlled by the Westeros system. The group will be controlled by Natalia's uncle Sher Guy Lyudaev is in charge.
The fathers of the girls Yulia Antonenko and Evgenia Korkoszko, Victor Antonenko and Frankimir Korkoszko, were originally government servants. The two had previously lost their jobs due to the political turmoil of recent years. Originally, after the two girls were selected to become Simon's maids, Yuri and Vladimir had re-entered the work of the Rivni municipal government.
Simon went a step further and charted a political path for them from state legislators to members of Congress.
Now that Akhmetov, the former richest man in Ukraine, can stuff his bodyguards, drivers, lawyers, and dentists into the Ukrainian Congress, this matter will only be easier for Simon.
The last of Annika Pavlenko and Marta Boyarskaya.
Annika's father, Yuri Pavlenko, used to be an accountant at a state-owned wood processing factory in the small town of Lekbani, north of Rivni. Yuri Pavlenko has been unemployed in recent years after the bankruptcy of his wood processing plant two years ago.
Marta Boyarskaya's father, Nikolay Boyarskaya, worked as a small supervisor in a tepid glass processing factory in Dubno, southern Rivne Oblast.
Simon plans to have the fathers of both girls join Oldeker as management, and he also plans to acquire the glass processing factory where Marta's father works.
Sergey Komorov had been notified in advance and he did not ask for a position that was too high. At the same time, he said that if the two were not competent enough, Komorov could let them out at any time. Because during the communication process, Komorov deliberately gave Komorov the feeling that he acted like this because he doted on the two little vases that had just been gathered together, so the other party readily agreed.
As for whether Komorov understands that this is "adding sand" to Oldek Company, Simon doesn't care.
The meeting started at about four o'clock in the afternoon and lasted until about eight o'clock in the evening.
Each family spent half an hour, but Simon finally didn't entertain them to stay and have a meal together. It wasn't even to this level.
This time just give the soil and plant the seeds.
As for whether the painting will be successful in the end, Simon does not have absolute expectations. He will only decide whether to add resources or give up directly based on the subsequent growth of the 'seed'.
After dinner, in a living room on the second floor of the villa.
He will leave tomorrow morning, and Simon explained some final things to Celia and Emily, who will stay in Ukraine for a few more days: "As for the acquisition of the fertilizer plant and the establishment of a media group, I will let the Westeros company headquarters Send a team over there to take charge of this matter, Celia, you also need to come to Ukraine for more time in the near future to help coordinate these things."
The two women nodded in agreement, and Ekaterina and Natalia came in with coffee.
After the two girls poured coffee for several people and were about to leave, Simon casually grabbed Ekaterina. The girl followed Simon's strength and sat on her lap. Although she was tall, she curled up in the man's arms like a cat. Inside, it gives people the feeling of a little bird clinging to a human.
Although she has a very 'big' name in Simon's eyes, Ekaterina is the most well-behaved and docile of the six girls, and she is only 14 years old.
During the meeting a few hours ago, Simon could feel that Ekaterina's father, Maxim Noskov, was a very strong man. This was probably due to his experience as a soldier and a corporate executive. related. One generation is strong and the other is weak. If the parents are too strong, the children's character will inevitably weaken.
Therefore, Ekaterina has the personality of a well-behaved kitten.
Simon used to prefer women with strong female qualities and was less inclined to be vases, but Ekaterina made Simon experience a different charm.
If it weren't for the trouble of settling in, Simon once had the idea of taking the girl out of Ukraine.
In the end, I gave up the idea.
He was surrounded by a group of big goblins. If he let a well-behaved kitten in, it would be weird if he didn't get eaten into pieces.
Therefore, we decided to continue raising her in Ukraine.
Holding the girl's waist, Simon continued to speak to Celia in English: "And Nana and the others, you are looking for a housekeeper and two bodyguards and drivers to come over. Of course, they must all be women. They will continue to live here in the future. Here, though, I need them to start learning again.”
Celia looked at the girl in Simon's arms and said, "Simon, it seems there are no very good schools in Rivni. Or should we wait until our UFMS community school is built to allow them to enroll again?"
Simon shook his head without thinking: "Then we have to wait until next year. Aren't we planning to recruit a lot of teachers? Let's arrange some to teach them directly. There is no need to go to school. The main course, um, English, this must be one of them. , and then choose some literature and art, as well as dance, learn ballet, don't practice toe. As for the other things, it depends on the girls' own interests. By the way, the teacher you choose must also be a woman. Except for weekends, the girls will do it every day. Class duration shall not be less than six hours.”
Celia jotted it down quickly.
The experiences of the past few days have made Celia realize that if she wants to gain Simon's trust, everything about the man in front of her should be part of her job, not just the military aspect.
However, at a certain moment, I suddenly felt that there seemed to be a father arranging the schoolwork for his daughters.
Very weird.
Of course I dare not say it.
Simon waited for Celia to write down the matter in the memo, and then said: "Also, the surveillance system installed around this manor will not be dismantled this time. It will continue to operate from now on. After you select the bodyguards, I will arrange for someone to take over. this matter."